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jfb | karma 7041 | avg karma 3.18 · 2013-08-05 02:58:08

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  SHM_OPEN(2)                 BSD System Calls Manual

lmm | karma 42440 | avg karma 1.91 · 2013-08-05 08:11:46

There's another platform with a larger marketshare that has a POSIX API available too. The question is whether it's the API that developers for that platform actually use.

justincormack | karma 11120 | avg karma 2.4 · 2013-08-05 08:35:08

It doesn't really have much of a POSIX API though. It could but it is very incomplete, deliberately, having just enough to bootstrap the other environment...